- Knocking on an electric appliance was an effective way to repair them- 9 Planets

When no other countries around the world is going to militarily stop China and its subordinate fom abusing its citizens within its national boundary, it is unreasonable to expect those abuse can be countered with purely peaceful means.

There will be mother in laws jokes as long as their are mother in laws.

My ex-mil sure had enough to say about me, so they were all deserved.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the worldThe heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its ownWake now, discover that you are the song that the morning bringsThe heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own

I took one of these Compaq bad boys home from work for a weekend once. Nearly gave myself a hernia the thing was so damn heavy.

My father bought the very first computer and took it home for a weekend as well. He asked me to carry it and I will never forget his words: "Watch out! This is as expensive as an aircraft!"I was an active planespotter at that time and he didn't like that I "wasted" so much time at the airport fence. I always wondered if he really thought you can get an aircraft for the price of a computer (well, maybe a second hand Cessna...) or if he simply tried to impress me. Useless to say that I took every step of the stairway veeeeeeery veeeeeery carefully...

I know I had to get one a dozen or so years ago when I was getting my PPL.

I wonder what millenials think of that!

N14AZ wrote:

scbriml wrote:

I took one of these Compaq bad boys home from work for a weekend once. Nearly gave myself a hernia the thing was so damn heavy.

My father bought the very first computer and took it home for a weekend as well. He asked me to carry it and I will never forget his words: "Watch out! This is as expensive as an aircraft!"I was an active planespotter at that time and he didn't like that I "wasted" so much time at the airport fence. I always wondered if he really thought you can get an aircraft for the price of a computer (well, maybe a second hand Cessna...) or if he simply tried to impress me. Useless to say that I took every step of the stairway veeeeeeery veeeeeery carefully..

Yeah, one of my uncles showed up with the Compaq at a family party back in the day, just to show off.

I remember he booted DOS from floppies and loaded some spread sheet (probably VisiCalc) to show us that you could actually do work with it.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the worldThe heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its ownWake now, discover that you are the song that the morning bringsThe heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own

If the criteria is to be further amended and include Pluto, it is likely that other objects near Pluto will also be included as planet, and therefore it won't be 9 either

When no other countries around the world is going to militarily stop China and its subordinate fom abusing its citizens within its national boundary, it is unreasonable to expect those abuse can be countered with purely peaceful means.

OMG... none of the people quoted in that piece understand the planet definition. Surprising given their high profile, but I guess the "yes, Pluto is a planet" is good for book sales.

The definition is limited to the solar system by, well, definition. Hence it didn't strip any exo-planet of its planet status, as they never had that status, being exo-planets after all. That is the class they are in. We have a hard enough time finding small exo-planets, figuring out if they cleared their neighbourhood is impossible as of now and unless nation states shell out hundreds of billions of dollars, in the grand theme of things not all that much spend over decades though, we won't.

It borders on hilarious if a guy is complaining about the current criteria being imprecise and leading to borderline cases suggests using "round objects in space that are smaller than stars." Instead. Newsflash: none of the planet's in the solar system is round. So how round does it have to be to count as round? How do we find out if they are that round? Is Pluto round enough? From earth based observations we didn't know how round it was, we only knew it was heavy enough to likely be round, we had to send a probe to see that it is pretty round. Should it get planet status because we bothered to send a probe, and others not because we didn't yet?

And of course that would also strip all (exo-)planets of their planet status, because we have no effing clue how round they are, as we can not directly image them. Unless of course they are so heavy that they must be round, but that is just inference, not observation and pretty much only doable for gas giants.

We have a good idea how heavy they are though and because of that, the IAU definition is at least in principle applicable to exo-planets, where the roundness criteria is not and probably never will be, applicable unless we figure a way to send a probe. Even the biggest suggested telescope could at best make out continent sized structures on near by exo-planets.

And talk about being unclear, a chunk of mallible ice like Pluto can be fairly small and light for gravitation to make it round, a rocky piece of planet candidate needs to be quite a bit bigger to be round.

nonsense wrote:

"This leads to many bizarre and absurd conclusions. For example, it would mean that Earth was not a planet for its first 500 million years of history, because it orbited among a swarm of debris until that time, and also that if you took Earth today and moved it somewhere else, say out to the asteroid belt, it would cease being a planet."

There isn't one true statement in this. For one the definition is for what is a planet and not for what was, it is also clearing the neighbourhood over a long period of time, the lifetime of our solar system. The moment earth had accreded enough mass to do that, it was a planet, even with all the debris flying around, and if you transported earth into the asteroid belt if would again clear its neighbourhood given enough time, and still remain a planet. I also like how a scientist (!) tries to make an argument based on something impossible, we can't transport earth.

I liked Pluto as a planet as much as everyone else, but get over it, it ain't one. And if it ever becomes a planet again based on the roundness feature you get a shitload of planets, not just Pluto back.

People only commenting on stuff they understand on better-than-the-average-layman in the media is also something that young people today don't know anymore.

Playing tug of war on the school yard. These days, most schools forbid it

For the same reason football is becoming less popular in schools: liability. Because the same parents that complain about libtards taking all the good stuff out of school would happily sue that school if a snapped rope punshes an eye out, or one team decides it is fun to let go mid game and someone breaks something.But I know, keeping children safe has a liberal bias...

Has nothing to do with liabiliy, but everything to do with the war on boys.

Yeah, right... some other made up wars are currently going? But really hard on those poor boy to get just 6 month of jail for property damage.... rape I mean. That wouldn't happen if there was a war on boys.

I remember he booted DOS from floppies and loaded some spread sheet (probably VisiCalc) to show us that you could actually do work with it.

Booting from floppies is in itself something younger generations wouldn't understand. You have that expensive device and it can't even boot without putting a flimsy plastic thing in it. Then you have to wait for ages.

New Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work yet. Douglas Adams

Calling 0990 292929, which wasn't premium rate which at the time was 36p off-peak and 48p at all other times, it was the national rate at 10p per minute to book a flight with easyJet and getting tickets in the post!

I seem to remember hearing at the time courtesy of Casey Kasem that that phone number belonged to the principal's office where Tommy Tutone went to high school, though it would have belonged to other people across the country as well. The popularity of that song led to the FCC rule of having to use fake phone numbers beginning with "555" in all recorded and broadcast media since then.

When I was in sixth grade, I was told we would not advance current pop culture interest once we hit 35. Or, once we hit 35, we would lose all interest in pop culture and pretty much be stuck with. I get lost in a nostalgia fog when I hear a specific block of songs from 1999 or sit-coms from the early 1990s but I also like songs and shows from today.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the worldThe heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its ownWake now, discover that you are the song that the morning bringsThe heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own

Trust. At 65, I’m astounded how dishonest and untrustworthy people are. My local skeet club put in carded fields and are saving 15% of targets thrown, not going unpaid. I have bought several shotguns, 5- digit price each, from a guy I’ve met once briefly. Both times, it was, “send a personal check, Krieghoff is on the way. No one has stiffed me, you won’t either.” I’ve bought several cars with a personal check and drove off. No more, last new car was like buying s 787; an hour spent confirming the ACH transfer from my bank to their’s.

Memory cards for gaming consoles, Landline phones, Walking to the gate to pickup someone at the airport, H-Pattern Transmissions, DOS prompt, what a hanging chad is, playing outside and not being kidnapped and murdered, Y2K, sequential highway exit numbers, eating peanut products at school, and privacy (ie not posting every minute of life to the internet).

“Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.” ― Steve McQueen (Le Mans) 1971

Has nothing to do with liabiliy, but everything to do with the war on boys.

Actually is has to do with the fact that tug of war is dangerous, in the sense that kids get hurt when the rope breaks, and 20 kids on a side can put thousands of pounds of tension on a rope.Lots of kids have gotten broken bones from playing that "game"

Has nothing to do with liabiliy, but everything to do with the war on boys.

Actually is has to do with the fact that tug of war is dangerous, in the sense that kids get hurt when the rope breaks, and 20 kids on a side can put thousands of pounds of tension on a rope.Lots of kids have gotten broken bones from playing that "game"

Broken bones are to be expected with children. Nobody has ever suffered permanent damage from playing tug of war.

Good grief, the toxic masculinity crowd has taken the time to construct a cock and bull story around a handful of people who suffered lasting damage. Out of how many million who played? Crossing the street is probably more dangerous. Banning tug of war is stupid, anti-boys and totalitarian.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the worldThe heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its ownWake now, discover that you are the song that the morning bringsThe heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own

From what I can find Georgia has in fact adopted the by mile system at least on the Interstates. I Remember when Florida changed it in the 90s as I was living there at the time. Was a boon for map makers at the time, as everyone needed to buy a new one, I guess that's another thing people younger than me won't know how to use, paper maps. I find it crazy how much people born even 5 years after me had a very different life growing up. I don't know if that was as true in the 60s or 70s but these days man does tech move fast.

“Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.” ― Steve McQueen (Le Mans) 1971

From what I can find Georgia has in fact adopted the by mile system at least on the Interstates.

What a bummer. I always found Georgia's sequential system more easy to use and understand, especially since in crowded downtown areas the exits switched from sequential numbers to the names of the streets the exits connected to, e.g. the Spring Street exit let you off on Spring Street, the 10th Street exit on 10th Street, etc.

When a cheap airfare was not easy to find, using consolidators or 'bucket shops' and could check in 2 bags for no additional fees.Same day 'standby fares at cheap prices from NYC- London and London-NYC. Luggage without self-contained rollers. 707, DC-8, L-1011 and DC-10'sFar less security at airports.Cars without airbags.